These Sweet and Salty No Bake Peanut Butter Bars go together in minutes and will be a crowd-pleaser for sure!
I am always on the look out for new ways to incorporate peanut butter into my daily diet.
Because I’m mildly addicted. Ok, not mildly…pretty major.
I am the person who eats peanut butter right out of the jar. And once I start, I can’t stop.
And unfortunately it’s not the all-natural peanut butter. Nope.
It’s the regular creamy peanut butter that I can buy with coupons and doesn’t get the weird oil layer.
And yes, I am sure that weird oil layer is the tell-tale sign that it’s made from real ingredients….but it’s not my thing. Sorry.
I do have to say that I actually made my own peanut butter with honey roasted peanuts in my Blendtec a few weeks ago and it might have been a life changing experience. But that’s neither here nor there.
Please note that I did this in desperation because I had consumed all the other peanut butter in the house with a spoon and my finger.
Anyhow, new ways to consume peanut butter is kinda my life’s mission.
So here we go…
Sweet and Salty No Bake Peanut Butter Bars.
Let’s talk about the salty in these.
Pretzels. Not only do they offer the salty, but they bring the crunch.
Just coarsely chop, or break the pretzels. You want pieces, not crumbs.
Then grab your peanut butter…
Beat that up with some butter…
Then add in powdered sugar.
And stir in the pretzels.
Press that into a prepared pan.
Then melt some chocolate and peanut butter together.
This just keeps getting better.And pour that over your peanut butter/pretzel layer.
Sprinkle some more pretzels on top, so it looks purty.
And yep, there it is…Totally delicious you guys!
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Sweet and Salty No Bake Peanut Butter Bars
Description
Makes 30 bars
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter, divided
- 3/4 cup butter, room temperature
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 4 cups broken pretzel pieces, divided
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
Instructions
- Line a 9×13 pan with foil and spray lightly with cooking spray.
- In bowl of stand mixer beat together 2 cups of peanut butter and butter until smooth.
- Turn mixer to low and slowly add in powdered sugar until incorporated. Stir in 3 cups of the pretzel pieces.
- Press the peanut butter mixture into the prepared pan.
- In a microwave safe bowl melt the chocolate chips and remaining 1/2 cup of peanut butter together in 30 second increments.
- Pour the melted chocolate over top of the peanut butter layer and smooth.
- Top with remaining pretzel pieces.
- Chill for at least 3 hours.
- Cut into squares when ready to serve
Notes
Store airtight in refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Best if served chilled.
recipe adapted from Nestle
First of all, Kristen is right, the White Chocolate Wonderful will change your WORLD (run to walmart/target NOW).
Second, dear Lordy I need these!!! Did I ever tell you how much I love Take 5 bars because peanut butter and pretzels and chocolate BELONG together?! True fact
We are not huge natural peanut butter people around here, but Peanut Butter and Company White Chocolate Wonderful is super amazing and doesn’t have the weird oil.
Anyways. I need five dozen of these like yesterday.
obsessed with all things pretzel and peanut butter lately! These are no exception!
You’re like a magician pulling one great recipe after another out of your hat! These look incredible. I’m going to have a real hard time trying to decide which one of your recipes to make for your recipe contest!
So let’s just say, theoretically, that there’s a mum out there who is trying to cut back on her sugar intake. I’m thinking that she shouldn’t make these for her kids because she would likely just steal the pan for herself and eat the whole lot of them while hidden in a closet somewhere. In theory.
You need to knock it off with these fabulous bar treats. Just stop. My thighs can’t take it.
Oooh I’m in love! I like to make no bake peanut butter chocolate bars, but I love the “salty” ingredients you added in!!! So yummy!
PRAISE PEANUT BUTTER! These looks dangerously-good. Have you tried the “Jif Natural” peanut butter? It’s the only “natural” peanut butter that I can eat, and it has very a very minimal “magical oil layer of mystery”… if you haven’t tried it yet, you should. It’s pretty delicious. I still keep a huge jar of regular pb in the pantry for baking, but that Jif Natural is what goes into my PBJs 🙂
I will be making these right away!I’ve been making these bars with graham cracker crumbs instead of pretzels for years.One of my absolute favorites and I’m sure this will be too 🙂
I could eat the whole pan! These look insanely good!